It played a pivotal role in preventing a shuttered Spreckels Sugar refinery from turning into cancerous blight. It helped over 300 low-income Manteca seniors make essentially cost-free health and safety repairs to their homes. It made Big League Dreams possible and it put infrastructure in place that allowed Manteca to capture everything from a Costo to a Kohl's Department Store.

A 34-year-old Manteca medical assistant braved heavy black smoke and flames as she rushed to reach a trucker in the cab of his semi after he collided with concrete support beams below the Louise Avenue overcrossing on Highway 99 Tuesday morning.